Which server to choose when setting a dashboard button to run a dashboard extender business rule?
Hi,
I have a button that runs a dashboard extender business rule.
Between the 4 server options available, which one should I choose when, and should I even care about choosing the right one (i.e. when does it make a difference)?
Thank you
OneStream can be laid out so that separate servers do different things. This is only necessary in large environments; in practice, often a single server will cover multiple roles.
Depending on what you're actually doing in your extender, it might make sense to direct execution to this or that type of server.
- If the rule is going to launch a DM job, it will make sense to to target the Data Management Server
- if you're launching potentially long-running calculations, you can send it to the Consolidation server
- if you're launching big import jobs or other heavy integration tasks, target the Stage server
- For everything else, default to General.
As I mentioned, in practice a single server can carry out both Consolidation and Stage tasks, so even if you select different options your rules might end up running on the same server. However, from a best-practice perspective, it still makes sense to declare a preference where it makes sense, simply in order to future-proof your dashboards.
